FROM "Guida agli extravergini" - Slow Food Editore

Team 4x4 - Olio Tereo A.D. 2000
The name sounds more like that of an automobile group rather than that of an agricultural firm. However, notwithstanding the fact that "Team 4x4" is a fairly new company, it is already an important presence in the high quality olive oil market. It all began a couple of years ago when a group of young and determined entrepreneurs from the Anapo Valley set out to put their energies and means into producing olive oil. The project was carried out with the purchase of 15 hectares of land in the vicinity of Buccheri and with the introduction of an outstanding extra-virgin olive oil into the oil market, which competes with the high ranking brands of Sicily.
The "Tereo", a blend of the Tonda Iblea and Biancolilla harvests, is the result of a simple but rigorous production philosophy: the maximum in the olive grove and the best in the oil mill. The olives are hand-picked in October and November when the dark colouring of the fruit is superficial and a continuous cycle technology of a private oil mill is chosen for the pressing of the olives. The result is an oil that expresses the territory from which it derives and its individuality.
A beautiful and luminous yellow-green color; a complex, bright and persistent aroma, with the clear traces of fresh olives, strong fruity scents of unripe tomatoes and freshly cut grass. The flavour is intense and seductive: to be noted are the rich and full body, the excellent correspondence between taste and aroma, the obvious well balanced expression of bitter and spicy tones, the latter not too excessive.